England's Victorian Maps - Thomas Moule's county and city maps

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Moule was an antiquary and heraldry expert but is now principally remembered for his major contribution to cartography. Indeed he is celebrated, alongside John Speed and William Blaeu, as one of the great makers of maps of the British Isles and his work has remained popular and highly collectable since first publication.John Lee has worked as a London publisher for some 20 years. He has commissioned and published a large number of award-winning exploration and cartographic volumes, including the award-winning The Mapmakers' World by Marjo Nurminen. Klappentext The most beautiful Victorian maps of England's counties and cities by one of Britain's great cartographer's Thomas Moule. The maps are fascinating, decorative and hugely informative of an England in transformation with industrialization and the burgeoning railways. The 60 maps cover the counties of England plus key cities and are accompanied by contemporary descriptions as well as extracts on the counties from the Victorian age. Zusammenfassung The most beautiful Victorian maps of England's counties and cities – in large format – by one of Britain's great cartographer's Thomas Moule.

Product details

• Authors: John Lee, Thomas Moule
• Assisted by: John Lee (Editor)
• Publisher: Batsford
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781849944977
• ISBN: 978-1-84994-497-7
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Maps, city plans, atlases; Neunzehntes Jahrhundert, England, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Europäische Geschichte, Landkarten und Atlanten, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Atlanten und Weltkarten, Landkarte, Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte, Karte (Landkarte), Großbritannien / Landkarte, Atlas